Favorite Rejects 2022-09-08

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

I feel like I knew why Nazism was bad before I ever took a humanities class of any kind

David Bowman @dlbowman76

I'm pondering the problem that our relentless "STEM, STEM, STEM!!!" educational drumbeat has created a new class of engineers who can solve any technical problem but also can't explain why Naziism is bad.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Me: Well, that can't mean they think studying engineering literally turns people into Nazis, can they? Me: ...oh.

Will @WillEvans215

The Historical Commission created months of delays to make the building on the left change to the building on the right

Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies

"What I want from each and every one of you lads is a hard target search of every highland, lowland, public house, dog house, sheep shed, duck blind, and swan bog in that area."

Jason Sweeney @sween

Somewhere on the grounds of Balmoral, a lone corgi shivers under a rotten log. It’s finally free, but for how long?

Zoomer Antimillenarian 🇺🇦 @surcomplicated

Britain's national catastrophe, in one image. Note this is investment, not GDP. But the point, I think, is terrifyingly clear. @Noahpinion @BeijingPalmer

Helene Meisler @hmeisler

TIL cc @chigrl

Carlos Mucha @mucha_carlos

As everyone already suspects from Hollywood movies, foreigners really do talk to each other in English when they don't think anyone else can hear them.

Jimmy @JimmySecUK

Some pretty incredible footage of Macron talking to Zelensky on the morning of the invasion, when the scale of the full-scale Russian assault on Ukraine was becoming clear. https://t.co/9ETzGScTmp

Conor Sen @conorsen

Biggest weekly drop yet in ocean freight rates, -14%. This chart is really something now:

Chris Albon @chrisalbon

2022: “WOW you can write a prompt and an AI will draw it!” 2028: “You want to write a prompt? First you need to hire 10-15 promptOps Engineers to build out your PromptFlow pipelines which sends promptjobs to your PromptLake from the PromptQueue using the EventPrompt stream”

Segregation_by_Design @SegByDesign

🧵In Houston, freeway widening will demolish hundreds of homes in the primarily Black & Latino neighborhoods Independence Hts. & Near Northside, building on decades of the gov't using highway construction to segregate cities & destroy communities of color. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

nytimes.comOpinion | Mr. Biden, Tear Down This HighwayIf urban highways enforce racial barriers between neighborhoods, why do officials keep spending so much to expand them?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Anyway, pushing the idea that humanities education is a form of political indoctrination is probably not a helpful thing for getting more funding for the humanities. So I would simply not push that idea.

Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦 @ne0liberal

Bernie Sanders is dead wrong and no other Democrat should listen to him. We can't afford to have every clean energy and mass transit project delayed for 5 years. The planet will burn to a crisp while we wait. We *have* to reform the permitting process.

Burgess Everett @burgessev

Bernie Sanders announces his "strong opposition" to Democratic leaders' "disastrous side deal" with Manchin on permitting reform

Nat Bullard @NatBullard

EVs aren't straining the electric grid — and they just might save it axios.com/2022/09/08/evs… >important from @JoannMuller

axios.comEVs aren’t straining the electric grid — and they just might save itSome feared EV charging would tip California over the edge, but EVs aren’t the problem, and could be a solution.